Green Verse: Sina Queyras in the Montreal Mirror

Montreal Mirror catches up with Sina Queyras a week before the Coach House spring poetry launch in Montreal:

'I really couldn't stand the disconnect between what was happening, and what people were saying,' Queyras explains. 'I wanted to create a way for myself to have the conversation I needed to have. It was a process of writing in bursts and then reining them in. It's interesting how the poem changes when you put it into tercets, and it’s interesting how the reception changes — all of a sudden, it becomes understandable.'

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In commemoration of Coach House's 50th Anniversary this year, publisher Stan Bevington responded to his sister's plea to clean house - and donated all 212 pristine books he had been sending to his mother since 1965 to the University of Alberta's Bruce Peel Special Collections Library.

This morning at Coach House we're all giving Brecken Hancock a great big group hug and want you all to join us in congratulating her on her big win last night. Her first poetry collection, Broom Broom, won the 2015 Language Trillium Book Award for Poetry (English Language), which comes with a $10,000 cash prize.

The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts has awarded Coach House's own Jordan Tannahill the 36th Annual Dora Mavor Moore Award, a prize that celebrates excellence in Toronto theatre, dance and opera. The ceremony was held Monday evening (June 22nd) at the Harbourfront Centre, where 50 prizes in total were awarded to members of Toronto's vibrant performing arts scene.

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